2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

The Women's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 5. 14 nations of 3 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.^[1]

Gold	Great Britain Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell
Silver	Australia Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic
Bronze	Canada Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton

The Qualifying was held at .^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell	Great Britain	3:16.850	WR, Q
2	Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic	Australia	3:17.053	Q *
3	Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton	Canada	3:19.494	Q
4	Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks	New Zealand	3:20.598	Q
5	Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo	United States	3:21.765
6	Alena Dylko Aksana Papko Tatsiana Sharakova	Belarus	3:22.509
7	Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing	China	3:23.083
8	Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer Madeleine Sandig	Germany	3:24.145
9	Svitlana Halyuk Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Lesya Kalytovska	Ukraine	3:24.227
10	Evgenia Romanyuta Venera Absalyamova Viktoriya Kondel	Russia	3:24.644
11	Vilija Sereikaitė Aušrinė Trebaitė Vaida Pikauskaitė	Lithuania	3:25.656
12	Kanako Kase Maki Tabata Minami Uwano	Japan	3:31.165
13	Meng Zhao Juan Wong Wan Yiu Diao Xiao Juan	Hong Kong	3:37.952
	Katarzyna Pawłowska Małgorzata Wojtyra Eugenia Bujak	Poland		DSQ

• The time set by the Australian team in qualifying was itself a new world record, but was immediately overtaken by the Great Britain team.

The finals were held at 19:15.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton	Canada	3:19.529
4	Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks	New Zealand	3:19.847

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell	Great Britain	3:15.720	WR
	Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic	Australia	3:16.943